Our homes are our place of refuge and safety, yet we rarely consider the ways in which it is constructed and defined outside of our control. Systems of power - economic, social, and political - are constantly shaping and redefining how we think of our houses, as well as how we view those without houses. How can we move beyond this separation between housed and unhoused communities for more liberatory ideas of home? Auto-constructed housing and encampments have historically been used as tools of resistance, making political and social statements by changing the geographies of the places they are built within. The reclamation of physical spaces not only make political statements, but offer us visions of community outside of the ones we’ve been given. Only by understanding the line between home and homelessness as a site of shared struggle against larger systems can we begin to create more equitable and restorative conceptions of home in the face of our modern housing crisis.
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